Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 563 471 493
Rank change year-on-year -92 +22 +33
Contract jobs citing Packer 46 37 35
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.10% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 0.86% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 27
10th Percentile £400 £418 £456
25th Percentile £500 £425 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £667 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £628 £840
UK median daily rate £525 £569 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% -1.09% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £59.61 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 6,030 4,301 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.21% 15.59% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,109 2,873 3,210
10th Percentile £325 £301 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £611 £625
90th Percentile £700 £694 £701
UK median daily rate £520 £505 £522
% change year-on-year +2.97% -3.26% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 56 66
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £20.50
25th Percentile £41.35 £26.45 £23.90
Median hourly rate £65.45 £54.75 £36.83
Median % change year-on-year +19.54% +48.65% -28.13%
75th Percentile £71.43 £65.80 £65.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £81.48 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £35.14 £34.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% +3.34% -41.42%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -74 22 £575 -4.17% 11
North of England -68 10 £500 -16.67% 2
South East -68 6 £615 +41.38% 4
North East -39 4 £481 +13.24% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £513 -
North West -41 2 £575 -6.12% 1
East of England -21 1 £400 -20.00%
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 1
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.87%) Apache
1 5 (10.87%) Confluence
1 5 (10.87%) nginx
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (47.83%) AWS
2 20 (43.48%) Azure
3 18 (39.13%) GitHub
4 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (23.91%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (17.39%) Amazon S3
7 8 (17.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (15.22%) Azure AKS
9 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (13.04%) Serverless
10 5 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (10.87%) AWS KMS
11 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (8.70%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (8.70%) Datadog
12 3 (6.52%) Entra ID
13 2 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
1 11 (23.91%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) DHCP
3 4 (8.70%) SSL
3 4 (8.70%) WAN
4 3 (6.52%) PCoIP
5 2 (4.35%) HTTP
5 2 (4.35%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) VPN
6 1 (2.17%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (23.91%) GitLab
1 11 (23.91%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.57%) JIRA
3 8 (17.39%) Git
4 5 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (10.87%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.91%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (47.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (23.91%) Senior
3 9 (19.57%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
4 8 (17.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (15.22%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 6 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Computer Engineer
8 4 (8.70%) Network Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Junior
9 3 (6.52%) Junior DevOps
9 3 (6.52%) Junior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.52%) Lead
10 2 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (6.52%) OpenGL
1 3 (6.52%) Qt
2 2 (4.35%) cloud-init
2 2 (4.35%) OpenID
2 2 (4.35%) SAML
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Public Cloud
2 5 (10.87%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) CUDA
3 3 (6.52%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) CMDB
5 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (60.87%) Linux
2 25 (54.35%) Windows
3 7 (15.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (10.87%) Windows 10
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.52%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) CI/CD
1 32 (69.57%) DevOps
2 28 (60.87%) Infrastructure as Code
3 22 (47.83%) Agile
4 15 (32.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (28.26%) Configuration Management
6 10 (21.74%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (17.39%) Observability
8 6 (13.04%) Containerisation
8 6 (13.04%) Software Testing
8 6 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 5 (10.87%) BCP
9 5 (10.87%) High Availability
9 5 (10.87%) Security Hardening
10 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
10 4 (8.70%) Mentoring
10 4 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (8.70%) SIEM
10 4 (8.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 3 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (54.35%) PowerShell
2 17 (36.96%) Python
3 13 (28.26%) Bash
4 6 (13.04%) C#
4 6 (13.04%) SQL
5 4 (8.70%) Groovy
6 3 (6.52%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.35%) Go
8 1 (2.17%) Bicep
8 1 (2.17%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (45.65%) SC Cleared
1 21 (45.65%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Azure Certification
2 3 (6.52%) CCNA
2 3 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (6.52%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.17%) RHCA
4 1 (2.17%) RHCE
4 1 (2.17%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.17%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Docker
2 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
3 5 (10.87%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (10.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (4.35%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (4.35%) Squid
5 2 (4.35%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (4.35%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 39 (84.78%) Terraform
2 32 (69.57%) Ansible
3 16 (34.78%) Kubernetes
4 5 (10.87%) vCenter Server
5 4 (8.70%) Puppet
6 3 (6.52%) Consul
6 3 (6.52%) Grafana
6 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.35%) SCCM
7 2 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (4.35%) ZABBIX
8 1 (2.17%) Argo
8 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) VMware
2 8 (17.39%) Dynatrace
3 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
3 6 (13.04%) Tanium
4 5 (10.87%) Red Hat
5 4 (8.70%) PagerDuty
6 3 (6.52%) NVIDIA
6 3 (6.52%) Trend Micro
7 2 (4.35%) HP
7 2 (4.35%) Leostream
7 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
7 2 (4.35%) Ping Identity
7 2 (4.35%) Splunk
8 1 (2.17%) Ariba
8 1 (2.17%) Google
8 1 (2.17%) SAP
8 1 (2.17%) Tenable